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The new Gibraltar Point visitor centre will adjoin the old coast guard building, pictured on the right

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The coast guard building, pictured here in 1958, was built in the 19th century

Lincolnshire County Council is contributing £430,000, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is contributing £150,000, and an application is being made for £420,000 from the government's Coastal Communities Fund.

The nature reserve remains open to visitors in the meantime, and a temporary portable building will soon be put in the car park to provide visitor facilities.

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The bird observatory at Gibraltar Point, opened in April 1949, was one of the earliest

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The work of the observatory is carried out voluntarily by local and visiting ornithologists

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Hundreds of thousands of birds fly through or over or make landfall at Gibraltar Point during the course of a year